Garment pocket



J. VESCE GARMENT POCKET June 19, 1951 Filed May 26, 1950 Patented .une '19, 1951 ENT OFFICE GARMENT rooKE'r Joseph Vesce, LynbroolgN. Y. K v Y Application May 26, 1950,Serial No. 164,420

This invention relates to pockets for garments, and more particularly tothe type of pocket known as a patch pocket and often employed in coats and similar articles of clothing. o

A patch pocket as generally known, consists of a section or fabric patch, secured about its edge, lexcept at the top, to the outer face of a garment. Such pockets, while lending attractiveness to a garment, possess the disadvantage of bulging, distorting and sagging when objects are placed in the pocket. Hence it is desirablevv that a patch pocket .be one which will be free from such disadvantages, and it is an object of the present invention to provide such a pocket.

More particularly, the invention contemplates the provision of a pocket which shall possess, to all outward appearances, the aspect of the conventional patch pocket, but shall be provided with an article-containing pocket independent of the patch and so disposed behind the same and arranged in relation to parts of the body of the garment, that the pocket proper will be concealed and will not bulge or sag in use.

With these and other objects to be hereinafter disclosed in View, I have devised the particular arrangement of parts hereinafter set forth and more particularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein an illustrative embodiment of the invention is disclosed, Fig. 1 is a View of the outer face of a pocket constructed in accordance with the in- .vention, with parts of the patch being broken away to disclose construction; Fig. 2 is a view of the inner of the pocket, and F'ig. 3 is a sectional view, taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. l, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to the drawing, I indicates the body of the garment to which the pocket is applied, such garment being usually a coat or other suitable article of wearing apparel. Secured to the outer face of the body I of the garment is the patch 2, preferably, but not necessarily, composed of the same fabric as the body of the garment. The patch is secured to the body I of the garment by the line of concealed stitching 3 extending about its edge in the known manner. The upper edge of the patch 2 is folded down at 4 to provide the down-turned ap portion 5 located on the inner side of the patch 2 along the top part of the same.

Behind the patch and near the top of the same, the body I of the garment is transversely slit, the lower edge 6 of said slit being stitched 4 Claims. (C1. f2-,247x

by a line of stitching 'I to the lower edge of the inner flap 5 ofthe patch 2. The upper edge 8` of the slit is attached by the line of stitching 9 to the upper edge portion of a, fabric strip Il `which has its lower edge attached by the line of stitching II-to the upper edge I2 of an inner pocket section I3. The fabric strip I is preferably of the same material as thebody of the garment so that if the patch bulges slightly, the strip, if seen, will appear to be a part'of the garment body behind the patch. Said-innery pocket-.section I3 is stitched as at I4 around three/of kits edges to a similarly shaped outer pocket section I5 which is attached at its upper edge I8 to the lower edge of the flap 5 and also to the upper end 6 of the slit part of the body I, by means of the stitching 1. The stitching indicated at I6 and I1 serves to attach the ends of the fabric strip I0 and the pocket sections I3 and |5 to the body I of the garment.

From the construction above described, it will be noted that when viewed from the exterior of the garment, the patch 2 will present the aspect of a conventionally constructed patch pocket, yet will have none of the deficiencies of that type of pocket. When the hand, or articles of any kind, are inserted'in the pocket, they will pass over the upper edge 4 of the patch, and descending, will follow the direction of the arrow seen in Fig. 3, to enter into the pocket proper, composed of the connected pocket sections I3 and I5. It will thus be seen that the pocket proper is actually composed of the sections I3 and I5 which -may be of any suitable pocketing material and not necessarily of the material which forms the body and patch 2 of the garment, since the pocket sections I3 and I5 are wholly concealed within the body of the garment and are thus invisible. It will be observed that anything deposited in the pocket does not become interposed between the patch and the body of the garment, hence no strain, sagging tendency, or bulging is caused to be imposed upon the patch, so that while the pocket presents to outward appearances the attractiveness and dressiness of this type of pocket, it has none of the disadvantages of such a pocket as herein pointed out.

Having described one embodiment of the invention, it is obvious that the same is not to be restricted thereto, but is broad enough to cover all structures coming within the scope of the annexed claims.

What I claim is: 1. A pocket construction comprising, a garment body. a patch of pocket shape secured over the outer face of the body with the upper edge of said patch free of attachment to the body, the body being transversely slit behind the patch and below the free upper end thereof, the upper end of said patch being downturned between said patch and the body, the lower edge of said downturned portion being stitched to one edge of the slit, a pocket having an outer section attached at its upperedge tothe lower edge of the downturned portion, a fabric strip having an upper edge attached to the second edge of the slit, and the pocket having an inner section provided with an upper edge attached to the lower edge 4oi.said strip.

2. A pocket construction comprisinga garment body having a slit, a patch secured over and cov ering said slit, the upper edge of the patch being free of attachment to the body and being downturned, said downturned edge being stitched to an edge of the slit, a fabric strip- 'attachedto the second edge of the slit, a pocket having two facings, one of said facings being attached at Vits upperfedge to an edge of the strip and the second facing being attached at its upper edge tothe downturned part of the patch and to one edge of the slit.

3. A pocket construction comprising, a garment body having -an opening, a patch secured over the outer face of the body and covering the opening, the patch having a downturned upper edge portion vattached -to one edge of -the opening,the second edge f the openingbeing attached to a strip, a pocket behind the patch and the body, said pocket having an entrance opening at the top below the upper edge of the patch, one edge of the opening in the body being attached to a part of said pocket and a second edge of said pocket opening being attached to the lower part of the strip.

4. A pocket construction comprising, a body having an opening, a patch on the outside of the body covering the opening, a strip attached at one edge to an edge of the opening, the patch having a downturned upper edge attached to the second edge of the opening, a pocket composed of Vtwo sections attached together at their edges and unconnected at the top, the top edge of one pocket `section being attached to an edge of the strip, .and the .top edge of the other section being attached to the downturned upper edge of the patch.

JOSEPH VESCE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record .in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,940,695 Petronio Dec. 26, -1933 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date '611,262 Great Britain Oct. l2?, V1948 

